So Robin stepped forth and bent his bow carelessly and sent his shaft whizzing toward the
wand, missing it by a scant inch.
Every fairy
wand glistened in the air, as with silvery voices they cried, "Love and little Violet."
Pace out the distances with a
wand at every five score, and do you, Arnaud, stand at the fifth
wand to carry back my bolts to me."
Then the prince thanked his little friend with the scarlet cloak for his friendly aid, and took the
wand and the bread, and went travelling on and on, over sea and over land, till he came to his journey's end, and found everything to be as the dwarf had told him.
To this he with the
wand replied, "It is not to be eaten, senor governor, except as is usual and customary in other islands where there are governors.
When I got through the charmed grove, and was near the great house of the enchantress Circe, I met Mercury with his golden
wand, disguised as a young man in the hey-day of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face.
Had his modesty not refused the trial, he would have hit the
wand as well I.''
Their faces were painted in stripes of white and yellow; down their backs hung snake-skins, and round their waists rattled circlets of human bones, while each held a small forked
wand in her shrivelled hand.
She promptly shut it up in a cage, and, touching the Prince with her
wand, transformed him into an exactly similar parrot; after which, she instructed him how to reach the Princess.
Pistache, on a signal from his master, placed himself on this line, raised himself on his hind paws, and holding in his front paws a
wand with which clothes used to be beaten, he began to dance upon the line with as many contortions as a rope-dancer.
In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow
wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers.
She held in one hand the satin ribbons that guided her astonishing team, and in the other an ivory
wand that separated at the top into two prongs, the prongs being tipped by the letters "O" and "Z", made of glistening diamonds set closely together.
And now the Slayer of Argus with the golden
wand has caught me up from the dance of huntress Artemis, her with the golden arrows.
His body was reaching eagerly forward, his hand stretched out like a
wand, and at brief sudden intervals he continued his cries.
Murea, the sister isle, comes into view in rocky splendour, rising from the desert sea mysteriously, like the unsubstantial fabric of a magic
wand. With its jagged outline it is like a Monseratt of the Pacific, and you may imagine that there Polynesian knights guard with strange rites mysteries unholy for men to know.
